This Week's Acquisitions
(Special MLA book exhibit edition.)
- James Robertson, The Fanatic (Fourth Estate, 2000). A professional "ghost" becomes obsessed with the life of a seventeenth-century Edinburgh prisoner.
- Oakley Hall, Warlock (NYRB, 2005). A revisionist Western.
- L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (NYRB, 2002). A young boy finds himself enmeshed in his sister's love affair.
- Christian Isobel Johnstone, Clan-Albin: A National Tale, ed. Anndrew Monnickendam (ASLS, 2003). Scholarly edition of Johnstone's 1815 novel.
- Louise Welch, Tamburlaine Must Die (Canongate, 2005). Christopher Marlowe's final days.
- Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish (Grove, 2001). A forger sent to Australia for life finds love and fish.
- Vincent Carretta, Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (Georgia, 2005). New biography of the famous ex-slave.
- Ian Haywood, The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, 1790-1860 (Cambridge, 2004). New study of "'cheap' literature."
- Diana Peschier, Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Bronte (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Uses Bronte to illuminate popular anti-Catholic attitudes.
- Franz J. Potter, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). As the title suggests, a study of the early nineteenth-century publishing trade, focusing on cheaper texts.
- Markus Bockmuehl and Donald A. Hagner, eds., The Written Gospel (Cambridge, 2005). Surveys the writing and dissemination of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
- Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge, 2003). New critical study of Wollstonecraft's philosophy.